If the primary goal is to be selected into Harvard, your finding is correct. Is it wrong to optimize for several metrics? What if the goal was to create opportunities that would exist for decades, for generations?

[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/03/19/594993620...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-c...